1. What you need
2. How you can get Telnet and MacTCP
3. How to open a terminal connection using Telnet
4. How to open an FTP connection using Telnet's FTP client
5. How to transfer files using Telnet's FTP server
6. Where the VT102 keys are
7. Where the VT220 keys are

NCSA Telnet is a freeware application allowing Macintoshes to have VT102 or VT220 terminal sessions and do File Transfer Protocol (FTP) file transfers with VMS, UNIX and other TCP/IP protocol-supported hosts. Telnet can also display TEK 4010 or 4105 graphics. Telnet is not for use with CMS, TSO, LUIS or CICS, for which you should use either Macintosh tn3270 or Comet.

What you need

Your office Mac must be connected to UFNET, have an IP number assigned to it, and be running System Software 6.0.3 or later and MacTCP. To connect your office Mac to UFNET, check with your department's network administrator or call Digital Design Facility, at 392-2464. To get your IP number, check with your department's network administrator or call Dave Pokorney at NERDC, 392-4601. Those who wish to use Telnet via a modem should read the MacPPP handout.

How you can get Telnet and MacTCP

You can copy the Telnet 2.6 Installer from the Panda volume on the Panda file server in the CIRCA II zone. It is located in the PUB:MAC:Telecommunications:Terminal Emulators folder. The handout Macintosh Shareware explains how to access this server from a CIRCA lab.

You must purchase MacTCP. You can buy the TCP/IP Connection from Apple. You can buy the book by Adam Engst entitled The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh which includes MacTCP. Your UF department can buy a single usage authorization under the Apple/UF volume license agreement, from the UF Bookstore, Technology HUB, Leitha Smith.

How to open a terminal connection using Telnet

Open one of the preconfigured setting files,

-or- open the Telnet application,

select Open connection under the file menu,

enter the host's IP name or number for the Host/Session Name and click OK.

How to open a FTP connection using Telnet's FTP client

Open the Telnet application, select Open connection under the file menu, enter the host's IP name or number, click the FTP Session box, and click OK. For more information on using Telnet's FTP client, read the Telnet manual (files included in the Telnet distribution).

How to transfer files using Telnet's FTP server

Telnet uses FTP for file transfers. To activate FTP while you are connected to a host as a terminal, select FTP Server under the Edit:Preferences menu.

Turn on server mode and click the OK button.

Issue the appropriate FTP commands on the host. For example, when using Macintosh Telnet with PINE to transfer files, use the following prompts/commands (other host computers might have different prompts and different commands):

Host prompt Macintosh Telnet

$ select Send FTP Command under the network menu -or-

enter FTP<space> then select Send IP Number under the network menu.and press <return> -or-

enter FTP<space>your IP number<return>

USER: if no user name needed, press any key and <return>

Command: enter PUT<space>your filename (this puts the VAX file in the Mac's current transfer folder) -or-

enter GET<space>your filename (gets Mac file from Mac's current transfer folder and copies it to VAX)

Command: enter QUIT

The MPUT and MGET commands process a group of files when used with an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character (e.g. MPUT PROJ1*.* puts all the host files starting with PROJ1 onto your Mac disk).

When getting a Mac file, you must enclose the filename in quotation marks if the filename has any spaces in it. The same rule applies when changing the transfer folder with the CD command (e.g. CD "/disk name/folder name").

Full details about FTP file transfers and commands are in chapter four of the Telnet manual, which is included in the Mac Telnet distribution.

Where the VT102 keys are

VT102 numeric keypad (for all Macintosh keyboards with a numeric keypad)

Below is a list of keys not pictured above:

VT102 key ADB keyboard Mac Plus keyboard

backquote backquote command-backquote

esc esc or backquote backquote

delete delete or del backspace

backspace option-delete option-backspace

line feed control-j control-j

control-space (NUL) control-space option-space

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Where the VT220 keys are

VT220 key ADB extended keyboard

PF1 clear on keypad

PF2 = on keypad

PF3 / on keypad

PF4 * on keypad

F6 - F20 F1 - F15

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More information about Telnet is in the Telnet manual files, which are included in the Telnet distribution. Help is also available Monday through Friday from the UF Computing Help Desk in E520 CSE between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., 392-HELP.